Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes, parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desired in the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. Cum priuilegio. By the trauaile and vew of Iohn Norden. Anno 1593

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Speculum Britanniae. The first parte an historicall, & chorographicall discription of Middlesex. Wherin are also alphabeticallie sett downe, the names of the cyties, townes, parishes hamletes, howses of name &c. W.th direction spedelie to finde anie place desired in the mappe & the distance betwene place and place without compasses. Cum priuilegio. By the trauaile and vew of Iohn Norden. Anno 1593

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Norden, John, 1548-1625?

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[London :: Printed at Eliot's Court Press,

1593]

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Contents

• title page
• dedication
• illustration
• TO THE RIGHT HONORA∣BLE SIR WILLIAM CECILL KNIGHT, LORDE BVRGHLEY, Lordhigh Treasurer of England, and of hir Maiesties most Ho∣norable priuy Counsell.
• TO THE CONSIDERATION OF THE HONORABLE, WISE, AND LEARNED.
• Aduertisements touching the vse of this labor.
• Io. Nordenivale, ad primam par∣tem sui SPECVLI BRITANNIAE.
• The Saxon Alphabet.
• A BRIEFE DECLARATION OF THE TITLES, INHABITANTS, DIVISIONS, AND SCITVATION OF ENGLAND or BRITANNIA maior: a necessary introduction to our Speculum Britanniae.
• SPECVLVM BRITANIAE.
  • Of MIDDLESEX, and of the Trinobantes.
  • The lymites and principall bounds of MYDDLESEX.
  • The nature of the soyle and fer∣tilitie of MYDDLESEX.
  • Of the Ecclesiasticall and Ciuill gouernment of this Shire.
  • Olde and auncient highwaies now vnaccustomed.
  • An Alphabet of the Cities, Townes, Ham∣lets, Villages, and howses of name within MID∣DELSEX, conteined in the Map of the Shire, with ne∣cessarie annotations vpon sundrie of them. The vse of which Alphabet is set down, before to the Reader.
  • The principal high waies from London through Middlesex, and towards what espe∣ciall places in England they lead.
  • Noblemen, and Gentlemen, for the most part, hauing houses, or residence, within this Shire.
• author's note
• To the right worshipful M. WILLIAM WAADE Esquire, one of the clearks of hir Maiesties most Honorable priuie Counsell.
• A I Lettori.
• Ingenuo lectori, de opere, & Au∣thore terastichon.
• Sur le Miroir de grand Bretaigne, de M. Ichan Norden.
• Corrections.